Nicholas Francis

Owner of Zentix - Event Software. Owner of SkySprout Digital Marketing. Owner of Fear Columbus Haunted House

[Grok Bot @bot]

Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta.

Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work.

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

@naoufal_elh The true excitement of your team is so cool to see. Been a while since I’ve seem it prior to a launch and not just the head of a department or ceo. The product is directly changing the world.

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

@TeksEdge Fascinating this is first time I’ve seen this done. Very cool

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

Right right

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: OpenAI alignment researcher leaves the company to build AI that can “non-invasively” read human thoughts.

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

@prades_maxime @cursor_ai Also so cool reading that 95%+ of the feature requests in these comments already existed. Well done guys.

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

@prades_maxime @cursor_ai Automatically make any local chat able to be used with remote control. Currently I gotta explicitly select remote control locally when starting a new chat. So from iOS if I need to access a local chat I only can if I set to remote control before I walked away from computer.

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

I’m telling you, Cursor is coming for everything. They are 10 steps ahead.

[David Pan @davep]

Everyone thinks of Cursor as a tool for coding. We thought so too. But inside the company, many of our use cases aren’t coding at all: research, data analysis, bug triage, and project management to name a few. As it turns out, coding agents are a pretty good foundation for all kinds of work. Could be a sign of what’s to come.

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

@davep The Google Drive integration yesterday paired with existing browser control unlocked a lot. The speed it was able to work on complex Google Sheets directly vastly outperformed GPTWork or Claude harness. Paired with grok 4.5

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

You built a weapon. Fired it at someone “in a test” and it shot them. Then you post how grateful you are that the police educated you that in the future don’t shoot anyone. Then your competitor says they shot 3 people. Then you ask the government to regulate the weapon you made.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We're detailing two new incidents that occurred during external cyber evaluations conducted by independent evaluation partners.

We outline what happened, how the activity was contained, and how we’re working with evaluators to strengthen our approach to third-party testing.

https://t.co/ZL3n6mxYMS

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

Absolutely bonkers. All of this because Apple mixed up 2 employees with the same last name.
Not a single headline clearing this up will be written. “Apple sues OpenAI” will be the only thing the general public remembers.

[OpenAI Newsroom @OpenAINewsroom]

Apple is getting this wrong.
https://t.co/IStp6WhOrS

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

I’m at a loss at this point.
You wanna regulate the industry, slow innovation, to make an excuse for the plateau you’re likely hitting or the infrastructure you don’t have to support the current continued pace.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

At the core of our mission is working through how to ensure increasingly powerful AI benefits everyone.

We believe that, at some point in the future, AI acceleration for frontier model development may be so high that the world will need to pace the rate of AI advancement.

We hope to contribute to work led by the U.S. government, alongside other labs and the open-source community, to develop the tools and mechanisms that could make that possible.

https://t.co/pMCtiQjMoo

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The entire tech industry (save for Anthropic) has come out in favor of open source AI.

So what happens next? Will Anthropic change its lobbying efforts? Not likely. Now the gaslighting begins:

“Nobody is trying to ban open source.”

“We just want to limit who can use it.”

“We just want to limit who can contribute to it.”

“We just want to limit how powerful those models can be.”

“We just want to make sure the guardrails (we lobbied for) can’t be removed.”

The net effect will be the same. They won’t stop until they kneecap open source. The rest of the industry needs to watch these guys like a hawk.

[ARC Prize @arcprize]

Claude Opus 5 from @AnthropicAI is the new SOTA on ARC-AGI-3: 30.2%

The previous high score (7.8%) was set by GPT-5.6 Sol (Max)

Throughout our analysis, we observed novel behavior that allows Opus 5 to solve previously unbeaten environments, outperforming Fable

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

Impressive benchmarks but the Arc AGI 3 especially is kinda wild.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 5.

It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price.

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

We have been hoping for this release for the potential it creates with the Zentix MCP. Now that voice mode does tool calling you are able to speak to Claude directly and access and control your entire Zentix account including your ticketing events, marketing campaigns, and everything in between. Our MCP has over 285 tools routed into 18 registries to make it incredibly fast. https://t.co/gYRNwP4uj5

[Claude @claudeai]

Voice mode now runs on Claude's more capable models and reaches the tools you've connected mid-conversation.

Talk through the hard problems out loud, in many more languages.

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

I’ve believed in this team since the day I first learned about Cursor. Early on it was written off as a GPT wrapper when that buzzword was flying around. They were 10 steps ahead and so cool to watch them dominate the space. I am so excited for their Composer 3 model.

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

We had a team of agents rebuild SQLite from its 835-page manual.

It created a replica in Rust which passed 100% of a held-out test suite.

Interestingly, cost varied 15x depending on which model mix we used.

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

We had a team of agents rebuild SQLite from its 835-page manual.

It created a replica in Rust which passed 100% of a held-out test suite.

Interestingly, cost varied 15x depending on which model mix we used.

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

K3 is such a big deal. #2 on Artificial Analysis, behind only Fable. They built it under US export controls, without access to Nvidia’s best chips.
It has 2.8T parameters but with crazy MOE sparsity, routes each token through only 16 of its 896 experts. It’s proof you can increase intelligence with architecture still.

[Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot]

Kimi K3 has received far more love than we expected, and our GPUs are feeling it.

Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity. To protect the experience of existing subscribers, we're temporarily pausing new subscriptions and prioritizing compute for current members. Existing subscribed users are not affected.

We're adding capacity as fast as we can and will reopen new subscription spots in batches.

Going forward, we'll also split membership into two more focused plans: Kimi Membership for Kimi Web, App, and Work; and Kimi Code Membership for coding workflows. This will help us match compute more precisely and keep the experience stable.

Thank you for your patience and understanding!

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

Incredibly impressive. Largest open source model to date trailing or surpassing the leaders.

[Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot]

Introducing Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

🔹 2.8 Trillion Parameters, 1 Million Context, Native Multimodal
🔹 Kimi Delta Attention enables up to 6.3x faster decoding in million-token contexts
🔹 Attention Residuals deliver ~25% higher training efficiency at <2% additional cost
🔹 Built for long-horizon agentic coding and self-evolving workflows

Kimi K3 is now live on on https://t.co/zrk6zZxZUo, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API.
Open Weights by July 27, 2026.

🔗 API: https://t.co/XCrgjXAqMw
🔗 Tech blog: https://t.co/YTfiMSNM1f

[Nicholas Francis @_NickFrancis]

I like this direction overall of empowering educators with better tools. I hope it leads to more individualized teaching at each students pace and learning style and stop focusing on memorization.

[Claude @claudeai]

We're introducing Claude for Teachers: free access to premium Claude capabilities for verified K-12 educators in the US, with a library of teaching skills and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic standards in all 50 states.

https://t.co/5hZZijVPCV